Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-24
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

Get your tools sharpened for next
springs work. A good farmer always
uses sharp tools.
A good fodder-cutter will more than pay
for it's cost in a single winter season, ana
it should be kept In constant use.
Land that gives crops just large enough
to pay for seed and labor leaves the owner
behind the tax. Better improve it or
sell it.
The farmer who does not fence in his
stock when living along the line of rail
ROAD not only runs the risk OF losing val
liable animals but endangers the lives Of
travellers.
Roots are valuable aids to digestion
when given in connection with grain
food, but when fed exclusively or given
too lavisnly they have a too laxative ef-
feet, which quickly runs down the sheep.
Dry coal ashes, well sifted, may be util-
tied with advantage in the poultry house
as an absorbent. The floor cannot well
be cleaned when the droppings are in a
frozen condition, but ashes or dirt should
be sprinkled over the floor three times
week.
The best records of ANIMALS have al
ways been secured when good care and
management were bestowed upon them.
No matter how great the capacity of the
animal may be, the conditions must be
favorable for the greatest amount of work
possible.
Prof Stewart makes the statement that
no grain should be fed alone to cattle that
are being fatted. When grain and hay
are fed separately the benefit derived is
not as great as when they are combined,
as they are more easily dgested when fed
together.
If your garden plot is selected rake it
over as soon as the weather VIII permit
and burn up every vestige of grass and
weeds, so as to destroy not only seeds but
insects. A covering Of straw, leaves or
stalks, burned over the ground, will be
an advantage.
OF the different roots potatoes are most
liable to INJURY by freezing; beets next,
and carrots still less, partly because car
rOts usually grow most of their roots be-
meath the surface. Parsnips can be left
in the ground all winter and are rather
better for some freezing.
1thas been well said that butter-makers
have given too little attention to flavor
and too much attention to color. But will
not flavor go as far toward selling butter
| as color? The butter-makers have only
| themselves to blame for allowing the
standard of their goods to deteriorate.
Some Of the best-paying farms in the
United States consist of almost pure white
sand, but they are devoted to fruits and
| poultry, thus economZing la Dor and space
The success of farmer does not depend
| so much upon the quality of the soil as
| upon the kind OF crops and mode of man.
aVement.
The great rancho OF l.. j. Rose, at Los
Angeles, Cal, embracing in all about $50
| acres of land, largely planted with grape
vines and orange trees, has been conveyed
to an EHglishman for the sum of 81, O37,-
{ 500. 1t is expected to pass into the hands
OF company, of which the capital stock
will be $3,000,000.
Spring pigs should not be farrOwed too
early. 1t does not require very severe
weather to kill young pig. April is soon
enough. If given agoOd start in life un-
der favorable conditions pig will weigh
as much at months of age as 1t will at a
year old when exposed to the cold during
the first months of its life.
Though long custom has given the
preference to large hogs, yet the small
carcasses sell better than those that are
heavier when sent to market. Experience
has taught many farmers that tits cheaper
to raise pork quickly rather than TO keep
pigs over winter in order to allow them
10 months growth instead of 10, as a good
spring pig will be ready by Christmas.
When pullets are forced to Law early.
by st1muants or highly concentrated
food, it is an injury, as it taxes the vi
tality. A pullet that is forced will lay
very small eggs for while, and when she
ceases. in order TO nest. she will not be-
gin again as soon as a m atured hen, She
becomes pTematurely old and does not
prove on the average as profitable as when
she is given ample time to mature before
beginning to lay,
The new process of sugar making. saws
Bradstleet's, as shown by experiments at
Fort Scott, Kan, by Prof. Wiley, of the
Agricultural Bureau, points to the more
profitable making of cane and even sor-
ghum. The extraction of the sweet from
cane or sorghum or beets has been by
squeezing under pressure. The new way
is called the diffusion process and consists
in soaking out the saccharine matter.
The average yield Of juice by the pressure
process is from 30 TO 81 per cent. of the
whole. BY the best appliances from 70 to
80 per cent. has been obtained. By the
diffusion process 1t is claimed that 90 to
90 per cent. OF all the Juice can be ex
tracted, and that in much better condi-